OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14297360
BALTIMORE TIN PLATE CO INC.
BALTIMORE, MD·
Event description
CAUGHT RIGHT ARM IN SCRAP METAL BALER
Investigation abstract
EMPLOYEE #1 WAS FEEDING SCRAP INTO A SCRAP BALER. HIS RIGHT ARM BECAME ENTANGLED IN THE SCRAP AND WAS PULLED INTO THE BALER. EMPLOYEE #1 RECEIVED A BROKEN RIGHT ARM AS A RESULT OF THE ACCIDENT. THE BALER WAS NOT PROVIDED WITH ANY SAFETY DEV ICE TO PROTECT THE EMPLOYEE FROM INJURY.
Victim
-
#1 Hospitalized Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 2
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 725
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 2
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.